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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"Goddamn it, Leo! You haven't made an arrest in months! I've had enough. Put your staff and mitre on my desk and get the hell out of here."

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Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno · 11/11/2025

🗣️ Finally! One of my favourite stories from last year, written by the incredible @bpladek.bsky.social and narrated by one of my favourite people (and current Pope of Camden - it's a long story) @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social is now live on the Strange Horizons podcast! Listen and weep with joy 💖🏳️‍⚧️😭

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B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

my beloved "sad man tries to crack dream-Mary Renault's egg and she says no" story from 2024's @strangehorizons.bsky.social just got a lovely podcast treatment, produced by the excellent @darthj.uno and read absolutely beautifully by @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Opening of "The Spindle of Necessity" on Strange Horizons: "Andrew was convinced the writer had been trans. By this point his friends were tired of hearing about it, but he had no one else to tell besides the internet, and he was too smart for that. That would be asking for it."

cover of Mary Renault's The Charioteer, a young white man with reddish hair in a green coat

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Sometimes I remember I have bluesky before I remember that Instagram stories are way more fun, and an art form I have cultivated over years

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Booked to see Deaf Republic, and with it unlocked a new Achievement! New level of guardian-reading tofu-eating “liberal metropolitan elite”: ‘oh yeah I read the poetry collection way before I saw it adapted for the Royal Court’

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A group of my MA/MFA Creative Producing students are researching access to wellbeing provisions by freelance producers, theatremakers who produce their own work, and other theatre freelancers. They'd be grateful if you could take their survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Freelancers & Wellbeing

This research project explores access to wellbeing support for freelancers within the theatre industry and the ways this could be improved to create better wellbeing support and resources. The data fr...

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Polly Maxwell @peamaxy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The LGBTQ+ family survey is open now: lnkd.in/efhq48jF This survey aims to provide an understanding of the different forms of family practiced by LGBTQ+ people, and how these families experience representation and inequity in public services.

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

‘One’ wild and precious life that sounds like a you problem, Mary Oliver, I’ve got nine and I’ve spent eight of them on memes 🤡

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Please!!!!! Revenge: After the Levoyah is THE MOST FUN I’ve had in a theatre since last time I was in the Yard Theatre for the Flea… RUN to see it I’m not kidding. Well done @emmajudeharris.bsky.social and team y’all are iconic for this

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Alex Kanefsky (he/him) @alexkanefsky.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Sometimes when writing the word Queue I get carried away and write an extra ue and I worry that one day I’ll just be sitting writing queueueueueueueueueueueueueue and that’s how I’ll die

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

At this point I’m not even sure if Bill Skarsgård is a real person he is so good at that type of ‘monster’ role?? You know what this means: buddy monster movie with Doug Jones a la Planes Trains and Automobiles. Or they duel/fall in love/both. Write this down Shirley, it’s a goldmine in the making!

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

And I’m sorry the way we immediately got a close up on the EYES Draculokgård was making at Houltker when he cut himself at dinner I am actually fed?? It was a fully irl lol from me??? Eggers really understood the assignment. Even though there was no lizard fashion

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Honestly though the way I cackled when Harker (I didn’t catch his German stage name sorry) cuts himself while slicing bread like he didn’t know he was in a Dracula adaptation. SCENES. The Nosferatu label confuses yet another one

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

More thoughts on Nosferatu—the way Nicholas Hoult shows up (I didn’t know he was in this??) & my 2 immediate thoughts were 1. man got a promotion from Renfield to Harker good for him 2. Oh this twink is about to get DESTROYED by that vampire. Again.

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Nosferatu was actually peak comedy? Especially that moment with Renfield when Seward was, in this exact tone, ‘Why would you do that.’ We didn’t get lizard fashion, but Eggers fed us well regardless

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Forced to tick the ‘I am not a robot’ box and taking it SO PERSONALLY. I’m TRYING 😭

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Me seeing anything

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James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

CONCLAVE is #TheTraitors for men in little red hats

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A merry everything from Chez Fitzroy. I’m here to win at crackers & snatch #Christmas, & I’m all out of crackers. Wishing you all a wonderful start to 2025 🖤 My Bluesky wish: find the combat people who made the move over here - holler if that’s you because it’s turned into a Quest 🤪 #stagecombat

A person in a gold Christmas cracker crown is sending a very technically impressive stage combat high kick at a person in a red bandana. They look badass

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Just switched on my out of office for the first time ever. Nerve wracking! Terrifying! But what’s this? Healthy boundaries? In this economy? In our industries? THE DECADENCE of it all goes really well paired with all these cheeseboards

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Alt: Baron afanas and nandor from what we do in the shadows being fabulous

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Ah yes, the earthly delights of an exceedingly decadent blowout Xmas shop!! …only to then realise that there is not a single cohesive meal to be found in there. 💅🏻

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

When you’re lying in the bath chilling and a spider is lying upside down on the ceiling above you chilling and you’re just two interspecies bros chilling on opposite sides of the same plane 🤌🏻

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Can someone tell marketing people that the 12 days of Christmas come *after* Christmas. Thank you.

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Polis Loizou 🐺 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

When he *isn't* "you know..."

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Favourite stupid Xmas films? They’ve got to be silly ones!

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

the grief and rage of a pigeon when you offer it a piece of wholesome vegetable rather than, eg, cake

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

What’s that Xmas film about the two gay roommates (omg they were—etc.) who go to this guy’s hometown, and there’s a skiing instructor that gets the dude to realise he loved his roommate all along (during a date!!) & then Jennifer Coolidge & karaoke? It’s awful/marvellous & I watch it every year

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George Violet Parker @agparker.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Queer poets! Share any news, forthcoming books, exciting events, etc. and use #QPoetryComrades so we can keep up with each other 😘

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Bo Warner @bowarner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I would direct SUCH a cunty revival of Jesus Christ superstar. It's my dream pls

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Ok I know I’ve said I have three advent calendars but honestly, receiving these in the post is really making the season feel like the season rn. Kid on Xmas day vibes

A closeup on a jar of Lakrids and Bülow Danish confectionary being unboxed. Gold spheres of deliciousness are visible through the glass of the jar, which has a colourful label saying classic and raspberry

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

@erinlyndalmartin.bsky.social is an actual legend for this. Both moving, and hilarious pastiche at the same time. ‘I would not go snake-blind in the burning bore of sand, would not parch and prostrate to call you prophet.’ Pls lmao!! This is right on my poetry wavelength rn

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I’m seeing Dethklok I’m screaming I’m crying I’ve signed my death waiver this is literally all I’ve ever wanted to achieve in life, that’s it, the pinnacle is within sight

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Bluesky is for trans people

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Incredible generosity from @littlepuss.net and authors - all ebooks are free until December 31st?! Fill your boots and tell your friends - some of the best writing you'll have read all year

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Went to see Rebecca Frecknall’s Cat on A Hot Tin Roof with little preconceived knowledge of the production. Left the @AlmeidaTheatre stunned, esp second act onwards—Lennie James is very possibly one of the finest working actors of our day. One of those plays you need to sit with for a bit after 🤯

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 09/12/2024

Try to make your mental illness work with you, not against you. Become a writer.

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

BAKLÂ @camdenpeoplestheatre was simply masterful - was gutted to have missed it in Edinburgh so feel really lucky to have caught it this time round. So many thoughts. How does history live through us? How do we live through our own history? How do we reconcile all our selves? Max Percy is a master.

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Love that story about an undercity oppressed by a gilded elite, that’s powered by an unsustainably manipulated eldritch resource, which ends up being used by an undead doomsday herald to mind-control an army of clones, stopped by a man with an outsize weapon. Am I talking about Arcane, or FF7?

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I say this as someone with an obsession. That obsession is me playing either The Boss or Revolver Ocelot in a live action adaptation of Metal Gear Solid. (lol, depending on where we are with the gender thing by then 🤪)

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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Six months ago I handed back my body armour after 30+ years covering conflict for the BBC. How have our ways of surviving on the battlefield evolve over those decades? Here’s a bumper 🧵of hard won personal experience

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

TRANS!! DORIAN!! REMIX!!!!

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 03/12/2024

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community. Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 28/09/2024

the kiss of Death

Illustration by Abigail Larson of the Death card for "The Vampire Tarot" depicting a gothic graveyard scene. A black-cloaked female Death kisses a woman in a pale 19th century dress while kneeling on a grave.

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Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

No but I actually love cosmic horror protagonists. Absolutely zero self-preservation. High INT low WIS darlings, each and every one of them. Could never be me.

Excerpt from The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle. Photo of book. Of particular note the passage: ‘I have seen the horror of the heights - and greater beauty and greater horror than that is not within the ken of man. And now it is my plan to go once again…’

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